Week 13

Moving is not good for operation a little less fat.  I gained 1.0lbs this week.  This is most likely due to my going out to eat for three delicious high calorie meals and a bunch of alcohol.  I also blame this pattern for my annoying cold.  Quite frankly I'm surprised it wasn't worse.

Weekend Wonders

So how come the moment you are moving your previously empty social calendar turns overbooked just when you have absolutely no time to do anything?

On Friday I went out for dinner and drinks so a little Mexican restaurant popular in my current stomping grounds then after wards we went to a friends house for more drinks where we played catch phrase into the wee hours of the morning.

Saturday I did a very miniscule amount of packing, made a bunch of phone calls and had way too many drinks while sitting around a fire eating steak and smores. It was cold and I was up until about 5:30am today I felt like I've been run over a truck carring a flu virus. My sinuses are conjested and I'm a bit afraid my swollen sore throat will close off at any moment.

Today I'm doing laundry, going to church and hopefully packing a couple boxes. I have to find out where to pocure more because lack of recepticles is proving to hinder my progress. Now I must get dressed (urgh) snort some nasal spray and try to look half way presentable.

Big News!

Project Annabelle is in full swing.  I'm moving.  Bye bye isolated tundra of Minnesota hello overpopulated city of Chicago.  Okay well not exactly..I'm moving in with my parents but this is a temporary step.  I need to get my house rented out and save a bit of money to cover housing expenses that might arise of my future renter.  I got a wonderful job (a promotion even) I'm actually a bit amazed they hired me.  The facility and location are great and even more importantly everyone I met was super nice.  

The whole thing is a bit jarring I have so much to do in such a short period of time. 

Time for bed.

Week 12

Another fun week.  Not really.  I've been busy, I've been over tired and I haven't been the gym in 7 days.  Somehow through my diet of McDonalds and prepackaged food I lost 5.1lbs this week. 

So definitely not bad news.  I'm going to try and get a decent nights sleep and hopefully make it back to the gm tomorrow.  Also there are some potentially exciting things on the horizon. Vague I know but yeah thats all I'm saying right now.

Peachy Keen

I had a wonderful day.  I skipped the gym but hey I stayed within my points so no biggie.  This is not my point.

So I was at the dry cleaners the other day where I was greeted by the most wonderful lady.  She was kind she was funny she carefully attended to all my ocd-esc requests.  I even called Alice to tell her about my pleasant interaction while doing my saturday chores.  

Flash forward to Wednesday I went to pick up my clothes and the same lady smiling said hi and said oh you must be here to pick up the suit.  Not only did she remember me and my order but she remembered out conversation and drowned me in genuine flattery!  Had she not been a middle aged woman I may have proposed marriage.

So often I threaten to write strongly worded letters to people who have pissed me off, of course i never get far enough to actually use a stamp.  Today in the spirit of turning over a new leaf I hand wrote a nice letter to the owner/manager of my dry cleaner describing my positive experience and singing "Sue's" praises.  I dropped it in the mail today.

Pleased with myself (and having leftover points for my day) I went to McDonalds to get an ice cream cone.  A few weeks ago Alice and I stopped to get a cone after dinner.  The young kid leaned out the window with the vanilla cone smiling and in a chipper voice said, "Who want's Ice cream!?!"  It was adorable and honestly made my rotten day turn good.  Upon Alice's urging I called the McDonald's and talked to the manager telling them about the chipper young lad that made my day.

Anywho today high on my spreading of joy I visited the same McDonalds to order my 3 point vanilla cone.  At the window a middle aged man half leans out and mutters, "Who wants ice cream...?"  Sure he didn't say it with the vigor it needed but it still made me feel good.  That kid got his compliment and thats what matters.

Annabelle Tinley signing out.... changing the world one compliment at a time.

If you would like a wonderful dry cleaning experience visit Sue...

Dison's Cleaners

20th St. SE

Rochester, MN 55904

Week 11

It's Monday weigh in day. Today is a particularly exciting because I officially reached my 10% goal. I never really cared or knew anything about the 10% goal until I weight to weight watchers the first time. I was never able to make it to that damn 10% in my three bouts as a member. Well suck it weight watchers I did it on my own.

Well don't suck it. I like weight watchers. I like their little three month journal I like having my points target to stick within. It gets me in the habit of this is what appropriate eating looks like and so far it has gone well.

In other news Alice and I have finally settled on our 5k date October 3rd. I'm going to take it a little easy this week on the jogging since my knee has been bothering me so I might just do 15 minutes of running and then cycle for 30minutes or so. I really should sign up for a personal training thing since I have absolutely no clue of how to exercise, but then again there is still so much time for that. I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the glory time before the first sucky platue.


27.7 lbs lost! Rock on!

Wellness Evaluation

Today was my big wellness evaluation. Sure I should have done this when I started nearly 3 mos ago but I knew it involved spandex and running on a treadmill with a gas mask type contraption affixed to your face so I took my time in making the appointment.

Honestly it wasn't as bad as I expected even considering my evaluator was young tall and dark & breathtakingly handsome. Perhaps next time I will request a old lady so my resting heart rate isn't affected by lust.

So after an hour of embarrassing tests I got my less than lack luster results. But I'm not going to let it bother me. Its a start and something to improve upon.

Today
Weight: 246.1 lbs
Fat: 51.3%
VO2: 19.6
Resting HR: 103

And for the Goals
Weight: 165
Fat: <30%
VO2: >30
Resting HR: <75